On July 18, 1940, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who first took office in 1933 as America’s 32nd president, is nominated for an unprecedented third term. Roosevelt, a Democrat, would eventually be elected to a record four terms in office, the only U.S. president to serve more than two terms. Continue reading “THIS DAY IN HISTORY – FDR nominated for unprecedented third term -1940”
“We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace–business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.
They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Why is JP Morgan getting so much heat? Maybe because it is a massive international crime syndicate.”
Matt Taibbi, Talking JPM With Sam Seder